It's me, Stefano, the BSD and illumos Cafe Barista - aka @stefano@bsd.cafe and @stefano@illumos.cafe I'm testing something cool - #littleFedi ! This instance is efficiently running on a Raspberry PI Zero W, powered by #NetBSD. I'll post general stuff - for more littleFedi news and updates, follow my other profile: @stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social Let's go!

• littleMesh addendum: readable handles and replaceable relays

  2026-07-29 16:38 UTC · #fediverse, #littlefedi, #littlemesh, #ownyourdata

  Yesterday's post left one thing unsolved. Your littleMesh identity is your Ed25519 public key, which is great for security and terrible for a handle: nobody wants to type @alice@a1b2c3...52-characters....mesh.littlefedi.social, let alone read it out loud. And the lighthouse we…

• littleFedi introducing littleMesh

  2026-07-28 19:02 UTC · #fediverse, #littlefedi, #littlemesh, #ownyourdata

  We've been buried in littleFedi work lately, and there's one piece I want to talk about because it's the one I'm genuinely excited about: littleMesh. The problem is an old one. Federation assumes you have a domain, a public IP, an open port, a TLS certificate. Fine if you're…

• The Blog Option in littleFedi

  2026-07-25 07:36 UTC · #blogging, #bssg, #fediverse, #littlefedi, #netbsd, #ownyourdata, #ssg

  littleFedi, like many social platforms, had both a strength and a limit. Posts, by their nature, are ephemeral. They get published, federated (unless local-only, which littleFedi handles) and then, over time, lost. Partly through self-deletion, partly through their normal…

• littleFedi: light, yet complete

  2026-07-01 15:58 UTC · #fediverse, #littlefedi, #netbsd, #ownyourdata

  I'm writing this post from a Raspberry Pi Zero W - 512 MB RAM, single-core ARMv6 - running NetBSD, powered by littleFedi. The process sits at 33 MB RSS, CPU basically asleep: load averages: 0.05, 0.08, 0.09 CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 1.0% interrupt, 99.0%…